Talk:Stephen Blaire

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Chairmanship of U.S. bishops' Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People[edit]

I have some POV concerns about the following statement in the article

In November 2007, Stephen Blaire was defeated in his bid to win the chairmanship of the U.S. bishops' Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People because his track record demonstrated that he had opposed justice for victims of childhood sexual abuse and he did not report an incident of sexual abuse by a priest under his authority to the police.

So I'm going to edit it to remove some of the loaded language in here and make it something more netural. 47of74 (talk) 06:33, 7 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your language is the loaded language. Let this man's career biography speak for itself. This isn't alt.fan.catholic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.196.109 (talk) 02:30, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the section again subject to discussion here. I agree with 47of74 - the wording was POV, and it wasn't supported by the source. The source doesn't say anything about why the Bishops didn't decide to elect Blaire, only that they didn't decide to elect him and that there was opposition to his appointment by SNAP.

However, I'm also concerned about the sourcing given that this is a BLP, so I removed that section in full. The bishop-accountability link can't be used because it is a copyright violation, and the original page is no longer present. Not having a link is ok, as we don't need to provide a convenience link if one isn't available, but the original source, California Catholic Daily, doesn't look to be particularly reliable for the sorts of claims it is being used for here. In the end, we have a now removed article, from a not particularly strong source, in regard to an event where Blaire ran for chairman of a committee and lost, for unknown reasons. That doesn't seem significant in the end.

The paragraph before that I removed as straight copyvio, and if we are going to accuse him of acting improperly in regard to child abuse, we're going to need a much better source than the California Catholic Daily. - Bilby (talk) 13:38, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It appears that what was removed as being poorly sourced and unnecessary returned to the article. It has been removed again. His actual committee assignments were also edited and updated to be accurate. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Celticprayer (talk • contribs) 03:47, 4 May 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pieces that have been removed as being poorly sourced are back in the article. The description of "tireless advocate" has once again replaced "advocate." The modifier "tireless" is neither necessary nor appropriate in this setting.

Additionally, the talk of "five non-negotiables" has come back, as if that is to mean something. It is a marketing tool by a Catholic media company, but is not an official teaching of the church or part of the Catechism. It has no place as a stated critique by which to judge a biography and does not add to the biography. Nor is it possible to prove the negative of "largely ignoring".

It seems that rather than create biography, there are at least two editors who want to editorialize on this Bishop. It is an inappropriate use of this page. They are welcome to put their opinions on a blog somewhere - but without proper sourcing and background those opinions are irrelevant to this work. Celticprayer (talk) 19:55, 1 August 2013 (UTC)Celticprayer[reply]